Ambulatory teaching and evidence-based medicine: applying classroom knowledge to clinical practice.

Editor’s Note: In this month’s column, Roberto Cardarelli, DO, MPH, and Mark Sanders, DO, JD, of the University of North Texas Health Science Center give useful suggestions on how office-based teachers can help learners practice an evidence-based medicine approach when caring for patients. I welcome your comments about this feature, which is also published on the STFM Web site at www.stfm.org. I also encourage all predoctoral directors to make copies of this feature and distribute it to their preceptors (with the appropriate Family Medicine citation). Send your submissions to [email protected]. William Huang, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, 3701 Kirby, Suite 600, Houston, TX 77098-3915. 713-798-6271. Fax: 713-7987789. Submissions should be no longer than 3–4 double-spaced pages. References can be used but are not required. Count each table or figure as one page of text. For the Office-based Teacher of Family Medicine